Category Archives: New York

Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you the winner of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge, 6 cities that transformed their highways into urban parks and 20 must-see December events in the Big Apple. Continue reading →

Entitled Flatiron Sky-Line, a series of ten large contiguous arches come alive with the addition of suspended hammocks, lined in LED lights inside the white powder-coated steel tubes. The hammocks are situated in clear view of the historic Flatiron Building and Empire State Building, and in between Madison Square Park and Eataly. Continue reading →

Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you greening laneways in Melbourne, mapping the soul of the city and how to respond to an affordable housing crisis. Continue reading →

DOT Art presents, “We Call this Place Home,” a series of 124 sculptures mounted on drive rail posts by artist team Chat Travieso and Sam Holleran in collaboration with State Senator Daniel Squadron and Hester Street Collaborative (HSC). HSC uses design as a tool for social change and believes that youth and engaged residents are among a community’s greatest assets. The team conducted workshops at local neighborhood community centers and modeled the brightly colored abstract shapes after drawings created by members of the Two Bridges/Lower East Side community. Continue reading →

Every year, tourists and locals alike flock to Brooklyn Bridge where a recent trend of attaching padlocks, or “love locks” to the bridge’s pedestrian promenade has been on the rise, echoing the romantic gesture made popular by tourists at Paris’s Pont des Arts bridge. But the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has declared that enough is enough. The agency has announced plans to hang signs prohibiting love locks and other items, and will impose fines of $100 for those unwilling to abide by the new rule. Continue reading →

“Los Trompos (Spinning Tops),” a set of six, eight-foot-tall interactive seating elements, created by Mexican-based design team Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena was placed within the Astor Place Rest Stop all three Summer Streets Saturdays. Inspired by the popular children’s toy, the seating elements enabled Citi Summer Streets participants to experience a life-sized “spinning top” first hand as they twisted around and within the sculptures. Continue reading →

Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you how protected bike lanes may make traffic move faster, the sorriest bus stops in America and mapping the favelas of Rio. Continue reading →

It’s that time of year again where outdoor festivals, placemaking efforts and community events are in full swing; take time to explore, play and enjoy your city’s public spaces. Here are just a few events taking place in the month of August:

The Hills, the new park on Governors Island in New York City, opened on July 29. The park is designed by Dutch firm, West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and constructed from fill made out of the demolition of existing buildings to the site, recycled materials and steel slag. Among some of the great features is Slide Hill, which rises forty feet, and has four silver-colored slides of different lengths; one being longest slide in all of New York City. Continue reading →

Inspired by the diversity of New York City, a 3,475-square-foot asphalt mural adorns the ground of Ascenzi Square in Williamsburg. Created by artist Andrea von Bujdoss (known as “Queen Andrea”), the mural reads “GOOD DAY” in vibrant letters, while technicolor designs light up the street. Continue reading →